Jean-Pierre Rosen a �crit dans le message <8djpm3$qef$2@wanadoo.fr>... >An instantiation is both a spec AND a body. Just remove the explicit spec, >and it will work. This is not possible in his example. The spec is in a package spec (to be exported) and he wants the body to be an instance of a generic (all this defined in a package body). There is no other choice than using another name and doing a "rename" I would say. Pascal. --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry --| --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination"